Skirt-marking device.



G. F. WED-DERBURN.

SKIRT MARKING DEVICE.

G. F. WEDDERBURN.

SKlRT MARKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19. 1907.

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SKIRT MARKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION men JULY I9, 1907.

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SKIRT-MARKING DnvroE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. July 19, 1907. Serial No.'384,592.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERTRUDE F. WEDDER- BURN, of Chevy Chase, in the county of Montgomery and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt- Iarkmg Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a skirt hanging device, and the object of my invention is to devise a hanger of such construction as will make it possible for a person to hang her own skirt without the aid of an assistant.

I am aware of the fact that a number of skirt-hanging devices are already on the market and that a greater number of them have been patented. Although these prior devices are called hangers or markers, no one of them with which I am familiar enables the wearer of the skirt to hang the same properly without the assistance of someone else. A few of the devices patented are said to enable the wearer to do the hanging or marking herself, but so far as I know, it is impossible to use such devices without the aid of an assistant and still stand upright 11. e. in the positionin which the wearer would naturally stand in wearing the dress being fitted.

In using my invention the person who is fitting the dress upon herself, without the aid of any assistant, stands upright or in the natural position, and marks the skirt while the latter is falling in the way it should fall after being completed. The marking device by which this is accomplished comprises, in its preferable embodiment, a rod or staff having on or near its lower end a marker and being of the proper height to reach the users hand so that as the end of the rod or staff rests upon the floor, the user may rotate it while holding it in proximity to the dress. The marker may itself be made of a marking substance, as chalk, or it may be of any other suitable material to which a marking powder is applied so thatas the rod is rotated upon its end, the marking edge deposits the chalk or other the dress at the points with which it is made to contact.

With this explanatory, statement, my invention may be said to -consist in the marking device which is shown in its preferable embodiments inthe accompanying drawings and which will be hereinafter described and claimed. In the drawings-which accompanyand plates form part hereof and which represent the ways in which I now prefer to carry out my invention, but not its only embodiments: Flgure 1 is a perspective view showing a woman in the act of using one of my skirt hangingdevices. Fig. of the device'by itself. Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional view of the marking end. Figs. 1, 5, 6,7, 8,9 and 10 are views showing modified forms.

Referring now to the ings by numerals and particularly to Figs. 1, 2 and 3: 1 designates the rod or staff which I prefer to form of cylindrical shape and which, for economy, may well be made of wood, and for utility may inches for a distance of one yard so that it may also be used as a yard-stick. Near the lower end a sleeve 2 is slipped over the rod and secured in position by means of a set screw 3. This sleeve is externally screw Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

2 is a side elevation details of the drawbe marked off in threaded as illustrated, and upon it are threaded the two centrally apertured disks 4 and 5 between which may be located a marker 6 which, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 is of felt, although, this marker may be of any other suitable ma terial. By sliding the sleeve 2 along the rod and fixing it in any desired position thereon by the set screw 3, all the parts mentioned may be adjusted vertically upon the rod or staff. A slight adjustment without moving the sleeve, by merely turning the two disks or plates 4: and 5, together with the felt marker 6, upon the sleeve 2. The scale upon the rod or staff serves to show the position of the marker and make possible its adjustment to the desired extent. It will also be noticed that the lower end of the rod or staff is provided with a thimble to retain a ball upon which the rod or staff may be more easily rotated, but this, while preferable, is not necessary since the end of the rod may be rounded as illustrated in Fig. 2.

In the form shown in Fig. l the sleeve is adjustable upon the rod or staff, as in Figs. 2 and 3, but in this form the disks or 11 and 12 are screwed against an enlarged portion of the sleeve and are not adjustable thereon. In this form only the lower plate or disk 1% need be threaded.

In Fig. 5 the plates or disks are held upon the rod or staff without the employment of any sleeve, and the collars 15 and 16 may .be of wood or other suitable material and as hereinbefore stated,

may be effected stay in the position where they are moved. As shown in Fig. 6 these collars, instead of being made of wood may be of metal and have spring friction fingers to hold them in the desired plane.

Another modification is illustrated in Fig. 7, in which a disk 19 of wood (or of metal if preferred) is adjustably secured to the rod or staff and is provided with a groove within which is located a marking ring 20 which may be of cord, rubber or any suitable material.

Still another modification is shown in Figs. 8 and 9. In this form, I employ a marking disk 22 of wood adjustably held upon the rod or staff by means of collars, 23 and 24. The marking disk is preferably made of soft wood with its marking edge somewhat sharpened while the entire surface except the marking edge is enameled so that when it is dipped into marking material in the manner hereinafter described, said material will adhere only to the bare soft wood and not to the enameled surface. A somewhat similar form is shown in Fig. 10, but in this form the marking disk, made in other respects the same as in Figs. 8 and 9 is threaded directly upon the rod or staff.

Instead of clamping the marker on the rod or staff, success may also be attained by having the marker free to rotate upon the rod, but capable of vertical adjustment. By sweeping the rod around the skirt, a continuous mark may be made without rotating the rod on its axis, if the disk is rotatable on said rod.

It is believed that my invention is so simple that its operation may be seen from an examination of Fig. 1 of the drawings, yet it may be well to state that in use, the operator first feeds marking powder to the marking felt in any desirable way, one way being to slowly rotate the exposed edge of the felt in a box of marking powder. After this is done, the person who is hanging her skirt stands, preferably in front of a mirror so that she may see whether the marking is being done in the place intended, and then after placing the rod or staff in a vertical position with its end resting upon the floor and with the felt disk in contact with the dress at the point to be marked, rotates the rod and at the same time moves the marking device just enough to make a mark of the desired length upon the dress. After the dress is marked for an inch or so, the marking device may be moved a few inches and then operated as before to make another mark. By repeating these operations isolated marks or a more or less broken line may be formed. A continuous line may be made by sweeping the marking device around the dress while keeping the marker in contact therewith and rotating it at the same time. Or, as before described, if the disk is rotatable on the rod, a continuous line may be made on the skirt by sweeping the rod around the skirt, with the disk in contact therewith, without rotating the rod on its own axis.

As pointed out earlier in this specification and as will be evident from the above statement of the operation of my marking device, the wearer of a skirt to be hung is enabled to stand in the natural upright position without the necessity of stooping even to the slightest extent, and to mark the dress as it falls naturally and at just the point desired. It will also be noticed that inasmuch as the marking felt may be given as rapid rotation as the operator thinks necessary, no device is needed to back up the dress on the inside opposite to the marker, and that with rapid rotation of the marking felt, the flimsiest dress fabric may be easily marked.

From the fact that I have described several forms of m invention, it will be obvious that my invention is not limited to any particular form, but that changes and modifications may be made without depart ing from the spirit of the invention, and where in the following claims I have used the word disk I do not limit my invention to a disk having a geometrical circular periphery.

lVhat I claim as my invention is:

1. In a device of the character described, a rod adapted, when resting on one end, to be twirled between the fingers of the user, and a marking medium located on said rod and having a continuous marking edge, whereby rotation of the rod will effect unbroken marking.

2. In a device of the character described, a rod adapted, when resting on one end, to be twirled between the fingers of the user, and a marking medium located substantially concentrically on said rod and comprising a soft disk adapted to receive marking powder.

3. In a device of the character described, a rod adapted, when resting on one end, to be twirled between the fingers of the user, transverse clamping plates on said rod, and a marking medium of soft material of slightly greater size than said clamping plates, the marking medium being held between said plates stiflen and support the marking medium.

4. In a device of the character described, a rod or staff adapted by reason of its length to extend in use from the floor to the hand of a person standing upright, a marking disk located substantially concentrically on said rod or staff, and collars for adjustably holding said disk at different heights on said rod.

5. In a device of the character described,

and said plates serving to SO11 HPOII a rod or staff adapted by reason of its length to extend in use from the floor to the hand of the user, a marking disk located substantially concentrically on said rod or staff, plates on opposite sides of said marking disk and collars for adjustably holding said marking disk and said plates at different heights on said rod.

6. In a device of the character described, a marking device having a rod or stafi adapted to be held by the hand of the person upon whom the skirt is hung and comprising a disk located substantially concentrically on said rod or staff, and collars for holding said disk in position.

7. In a device of the character described, a marking device having a rod or staff adapted to be held by the hand of the perwhom the skirt is hung and comprising a disk located substantially concentrieally on said rod or staff, plates adapted to support said disk on opposite sides thereof, and collars for adjustably holding said disk and plates in position.

8. In a device of the character described, a marking device having a rod or staff adapted to be held by the hand of the person upon whom the skirt is hung and comprising a marking disk located substantially concentrically on said rod or stafi and having its marking edge of soft material to which powder will adhere, plates adapted to support said disk on opposite sides thereof, and collars adapted to adjustably hold said marking device and plates at different heights.

9. A device of the character described, comprising an elongated supporting member, a transversely disposed disk mounted on said member, and having a piece of marking material projecting beyond the periphery thereof. 1

10. A device of the character described, comprising a rod adapted, when resting on one end, to be twirled between the fingers of the user, a transversely disposed disk mounted on said member so as to be adjustable therealong, and a piece of marking material removably secured to said disk so as to project beyond the periphery thereof.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the 11.. A skirt marker comprising a staff and a marking device detachably connected to and adjustable longitudinally on said staff, said device having powdered marking material loosely adhering thereto and being adapted to deposit the same upon a garment by mere contact therewith without pressure.

12. A marker device for ladies skirts comprising an upright rotatable member and a slidable marker thereon having a peripherally continuous marking edge.

18. A marker device for ladies skirts comprising a marker having a peripherally continuous marking surface and means to support it at a prescribed distance from the floor, the supporting means being adapted to be rotated by the hand of'the user standing in an erect position.

14. A marker device for ladies skirts comprising a stick, a marker longitudinally adjustable thereon having a peripherally continuous marginal marking surface and a scale arranged longitudinally of the stick.

15. A marker device for ladies skirts comprising a stick, a marker longitudinally adjustable thereon and having a peripherally. continuous marginal marking surface and yielding means to hold the marker on the stick while permitting it to be adjusted endwise thereon.

16. A marker device for ladies skirts comprising a stick, a marker longitudinally adjustable thereon and having a peripherally continuous marginal marking surface and a sleeve to engage over and slidable on the stick, and yielding means to hold the marker from sliding endwise on said stick.

17. In a device of the character described, a rod adapted, when resting on one end, to be twirled between the fingers of the user, and a marking medium located transversely on said rod and formed of soft non-mark ing material adapted to receive marking powder.

Signed by me th1s 15 day of July, 1907.

GERTRUDE F. WEDDERBURN.

Witnesses:

AvoN M. NEVIUS, DAVID Rrr'rnnnousn.

Gommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

